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Monday, March 11, 2013

Baseball Season Is Here & Some Meal Planning!!

Well, I can finally say it….my son is a Paladin Baseball
Player! Yay!!! It is officially baseball season and I am super excited about
this year! All of the nerves and stress are gone….he made it!

We spent 5 days worrying about how he’d do, will he make it,
and so on and so forth.

It all began Friday night-we didn’t go pick him
up until 9pm when he was finished. Then Saturday morning we were up at 7
to be at the school by 8am-another full day of try outs. There were time
slots for every position-pitcher/catchers; infield; outfield; and
hitting. Hitting was mandatory for all, but then each player would go try
out at their positions, my son went out for pitcher (ofcourse), infield and
outfield. This meant that we would be at PC all day Saturday and
Sunday-even though at first we thought we’d have a few hours off on Sunday, the
coaches wanted to see some of the boys again so we only had a 30 minute
break! Saturday wasn’t too bad for us. We dropped Chris off at
school and we continued on our way up to Woodbury Commons. Even though
I’m broke, I still love going up to these outlets and walk around. Lots
of window shopping, although I can’t complain as my wonderful hubby bought me 2
shirts at lululemon. Yay for me!! We also bought a little something
at the Disney Store-this is tradition. We never miss stopping at this store and
buying at least a shirt….LOL!

After this, we headed back to pick up Chris. We went
back home to have lunch and a bit later, returned to PC. The next morning
was similar-dropped him off at a different facility, we headed to the Ice House
for Kat’s skating lessons, then we went back up to pick Chris up thinking we’d
have time to go home & eat. His coach wanted everyone back at the
school for more outfield work, so we stopped at Wendy’s for lunch and went back
to the school. Now we were really stuck….nothing to do and we weren’t
sure if he’d have free time so we hung out there. We went for a walk in
the woods, I jogged for a bit, we saw some deer and I took a few pictures with
my phone. Eventually we went back to the car and watched movies on my
ipad. Later that night he came out with a huge smile on his face! He made
it through the first round of cuts!

The next 2 days they stayed after school for more practice
and on Tuesday the final cuts were made. He’s on the team!! Finally he
was 100% relieved and ecstatic to be on. Of course, this means a lot of
hard work on his part. He needs to keep a passing grade, work out and
practice every day and make sure he is on time to all practices! So far
so good-its only been a week J LOL

Him being on this team also means that we need to help out
where we can, so we are attending a pasta fundraising dinner this Friday-should
be fun! I just wish I could make it to all of the games-since I’m working
full time now, I’ll miss almost all of his games. This is very
depressing, since I’ve never missed his games-but I guess this is the way it
has to be! Hubby should make it to more games than me, so I’ll make sure
he takes the video camera!!

Now I usually post my Monday menu plan here, but with our
crazy schedules now and our dieting-I haven’t been planning meals! I am
going to attempt it though:

Tonight I plan on making beef tacos for the kids while hubby
and I have 2% milk with cereal.

Tuesday: Mac N Cheese

Wednesday: Grilled pork chops with rice

Thursday: Chicken wraps

Friday: Chicken Fricasse with rice

I’ll leave the weekend open since we usually order take out,
and we owe our boy a dinner out. He wants to go to Tokyo Hibachi, so we
may stop in there during the weekend!

2 comments:

My son is in his senior year of baseball. It will be starting soon and he will have 5 to 7 games a week. It makes it very difficult to have regular healthy meals. During the summer we travel with baseball, and spend entire days at the ballpark. Yes it is extremely hard to work around all the activities.

I am so glad that your son made the team, it is very stressful to wait, for both parents and kids.

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I'm a wife & mom to 2 wonderful children. I love to travel (but don't do it as much as I would like), love all things Disney, love dance & baseball! I enjoy taking time to write about my life's adventures in my blog, www.livinglife2itsfullest.com.